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5 Live Daily - I Was There: The Human Genome Project 26 June 2015

It's15 years since scientists revealed they had cracked the "code of life" in our DNA.
Mapping the human genome was hailed as an achievement equal to putting a man on the moon.

It's been 15 years since scientists across the world revealed they had cracked the "code of life" hidden in our DNA.
Mapping the human genome was hailed as a scientific achievement on a par with putting a man on the moon.
Dr Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project, remembers the mammoth task involved in uncovering the three billion letters in the human DNA instruction book.

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